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This month Grove introduced more new articles from the forthcoming Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, edited by Joan Marter, Professor of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Editor of Woman's Art Journal.

The May 2010 update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography adds biographies of 90 men and women active between the thirteenth and late twentieth centuries. The update also includes 10 "reference group" essays, an expanding selection of well-known networks in the British past.

This latest online release adds 27 entries to American National Biography Online, covering a period of over 300 years.

The Spring 2010 Grove/Oxford Art Online update focuses on globalization and offers a starting point for investigating themes of globalization vis-à-vis contemporary art.

Grove Music Online has been updated for Spring 2010. The update includes 250 new articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Nash Library is currently trialing Credo Reference which offers more than 475 highly-regarded titles from over 70

The Oxford English dictionary has added new words and revised entries between refund and  reputeless. Other new words from across the alphabet have been added, too.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's January 2010 update is now available. This update contains entries on 211 men and women who died in 2006, including Muriel Spark, Syd Barrett, and John Profumo.

The latest update to Grove Art Online focuses on the contemporary art of Australia.

This month Grove is pleased to introduce 100 new articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett.